Audiobus: Your virtual music studio.

What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is
an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use
your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite
synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like
GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output
for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a
synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI
keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear.
And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.

iTunes, pile of shite

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Okay, I've found out what the download issue was; an update to Vivaldi browser, means it will not download from some, perfectly legit, sites. So, tried again with Safari, and got latest iTunes installed....which STILL produced the all too familiar 'iPad disconnected' line.

Then got iFunbox, and after bypassing security, installed that and ran it. Clicking on 'copy to Mac' appears to do nothing. Perhaps it is not compatible with Sierra?

I use Linux on the desktop so I don't have the ability to use iTunes. iOS devices can back up through wifi, I have the ability to transfer everything I need within my iOS device, and most recently, have solutions for playing my music libraries straight from my device (not just through the cloud). For me, this basically means that I can happily thumb my nose at the iTunes software. I don't use it, and don't need it.

@gonekrazy3000 said:
How the eff are you supposed to backup .ipa files for apps removed from the App Store now ?

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Magic.

'Cause none of the possible solutions I've seen so far can do anything about apps Apple has removed.

the reason i download exclusively on my desktop itunes was precisely for this reason. i've reinstalled tons of apps i have backed up the .ipa files even on newer idevices. removing the appstore from the desktop itunes kills this ability completely. for now i've backed up a copy of my 12.6.2 installer for future use. atleast just for downloading .ipa files.....

@ExAsperis99 said:
How is this bad? Less bloat in iTunes sounds good to me.

How the eff are you supposed to backup .ipa files for apps removed from the App Store now ?

Fair enough. Literally something I have never done. And alas, since the majority of users probably don't either, apple has calculated that they can get rid of it.

Are you old enough to remember when Apple got rid of the floppy disk drive? That was shocking and at the moment almost beyond belief, but it worked out OK. Presumably there are still big thinkers in Cupertino, who are trying to imagine some wondrous, frictionless, digital future. Maybe there is already an elegant solution for this problem.

But when they promote thousand-dollar telephones and laughing-shit avatars, though, you are right to wonder about their intentions.

@ExAsperis99 said:
How is this bad? Less bloat in iTunes sounds good to me.

How the eff are you supposed to backup .ipa files for apps removed from the App Store now ?

Fair enough. Literally something I have never done. And alas, since the majority of users probably don't either, apple has calculated that they can get rid of it.

Are you old enough to remember when Apple got rid of the floppy disk drive? That was shocking and at the moment almost beyond belief, but it worked out OK. Presumably there are still big thinkers in Cupertino, who are trying to imagine some wondrous, frictionless, digital future. Maybe there is already an elegant solution for this problem.

But when they promote thousand-dollar telephones and laughing-shit avatars, though, you are right to wonder about their intentions.

When Apple got rid of the floppy we bought USB external floppy drives. Within less than 6 months they were obsolete because most distribution moved over to some form of optical disk. Now I have an external DVD drive for my Mac Pro and I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to use it in the past year. Technology changes constantly. Not just Apple but across the board.

As far as the $1000 iPhone - there is a huge market for it. It's just not me or (I'm sure) many others on this board. I was looking up real estate in the area of where I live and there were way more houses in the $1 million+ vicinity than I would ever have expected. Thats where the market for a $1k phone lives.

Getting rid of stuff is fine if it's no longer needed, or there's an existing replacement.

Removing floppy disk drives when companies were still supplying software and drivers on floppies, or print and design businesses for example who received artwork on floppies, meant a lot of us had to buy external drives to be able to carry on working.

@MonzoPro said:
Getting rid of stuff is fine if it's no longer needed, or there's an existing replacement.

Removing floppy disk drives when companies were still supplying software and drivers on floppies, or print and design businesses for example who received artwork on floppies, meant a lot of us had to buy external drives to be able to carry on working.

@bert said:
So with this new iTunes you can't buy the new Korg Mono/Poly in advance, with that lower introduction price, knowing that you will upgrade to a 64-bit iPad when you still have a 32-bit iPad?

Yep. No more buying apps in advance if your current device cannot handle it. A massive middle finger to consumers I didn't even realise had happened till you pointed it out.
Have an iPhone but want to buy an app for your future iPad ? No app for you! Stuck on 32bit device but want to buy new apps for future ? Get lost!

This coupled with the random price rise for the new idevices has basically turned me off apple. I might just stop using iOS and go back to ableton full-time although I will miss this forum if I do so.....

@bert said:
So with this new iTunes you can't buy the new Korg Mono/Poly in advance, with that lower introduction price, knowing that you will upgrade to a 64-bit iPad when you still have a 32-bit iPad?

Yep. No more buying apps in advance if your current device cannot handle it. A massive middle finger to consumers I didn't even realise had happened till you pointed it out.
Have an iPhone but want to buy an app for your future iPad ? No app for you! Stuck on 32bit device but want to buy new apps for future ? Get lost!

For me the biggest 'middle finger' is that I will no longer be able to dig inside *.ipa packages and hunt for samples since I can not longer download the app using iTunes...

And what bugs me the most is that I can currently NOT backup my iPad Air 2 using iTunes 12.7 nor to 'iCloud'(Both methods fail). So installing IOS11 OTA will be 'living on the edge' but thankfully I've already copied over all the stuff I've created using my apps... (And after iOS11 install I'll try to do a backup again).

@bert said:
So with this new iTunes you can't buy the new Korg Mono/Poly in advance, with that lower introduction price, knowing that you will upgrade to a 64-bit iPad when you still have a 32-bit iPad?

Yep. No more buying apps in advance if your current device cannot handle it. A massive middle finger to consumers I didn't even realise had happened till you pointed it out.
Have an iPhone but want to buy an app for your future iPad ? No app for you! Stuck on 32bit device but want to buy new apps for future ? Get lost!

For me the biggest 'middle finger' is that I will no longer be able to dig inside *.ipa packages and hunt for samples since I can not longer download the app using iTunes...

And what bugs me the most is that I can currently NOT backup my iPad Air 2 using iTunes 12.7 nor to 'iCloud'(Both methods fail). So installing IOS11 OTA will be 'living on the edge' but thankfully I've already copied over all the stuff I've created using my apps... (And after iOS11 install I'll try to do a backup again).

I think you should still be able to put *.ipa files from your Macbook to your iPad bij Xcode. May not be what Apple intends but will should be possible I think.

@bert said:
So with this new iTunes you can't buy the new Korg Mono/Poly in advance, with that lower introduction price, knowing that you will upgrade to a 64-bit iPad when you still have a 32-bit iPad?

Yep. No more buying apps in advance if your current device cannot handle it. A massive middle finger to consumers I didn't even realise had happened till you pointed it out.
Have an iPhone but want to buy an app for your future iPad ? No app for you! Stuck on 32bit device but want to buy new apps for future ? Get lost!

This coupled with the random price rise for the new idevices has basically turned me off apple. I might just stop using iOS and go back to ableton full-time although I will miss this forum if I do so.....

I've already moved back to Maschine on my desktop PC, and rediscovered what a brilliant thing it is.

The doubling of app prices, software bugs, the hardware I was going to buy going up by £500 (might be even more now with yesterday's latest increase) have all made me lose faith in Apple.

I'll still use the iPad and muck about on the forum - I might even get a couple of iOS synths over Xmas, but the days when I bought two or three apps per week are long gone, and a future new iPad Pro and iMac are well and truly off the cards.

@bert said:
So with this new iTunes you can't buy the new Korg Mono/Poly in advance, with that lower introduction price, knowing that you will upgrade to a 64-bit iPad when you still have a 32-bit iPad?

Yep. No more buying apps in advance if your current device cannot handle it. A massive middle finger to consumers I didn't even realise had happened till you pointed it out.
Have an iPhone but want to buy an app for your future iPad ? No app for you! Stuck on 32bit device but want to buy new apps for future ? Get lost!

For me the biggest 'middle finger' is that I will no longer be able to dig inside *.ipa packages and hunt for samples since I can not longer download the app using iTunes...

And what bugs me the most is that I can currently NOT backup my iPad Air 2 using iTunes 12.7 nor to 'iCloud'(Both methods fail). So installing IOS11 OTA will be 'living on the edge' but thankfully I've already copied over all the stuff I've created using my apps... (And after iOS11 install I'll try to do a backup again).

I think you should still be able to put *.ipa files from your Macbook to your iPad bij Xcode. May not be what Apple intends but will should be possible I think.

The problem isn't moving from MacBook=>iPad. The problem is how to download the .Ipa on the MacBook/PC ? They ripped out the appstore completely in 12.7.
Sure. You can stay on 12.6 since it still let's you download ipa's. But eventually they will stop it from accessing the appstore.

@bert said:
So with this new iTunes you can't buy the new Korg Mono/Poly in advance, with that lower introduction price, knowing that you will upgrade to a 64-bit iPad when you still have a 32-bit iPad?

Yep. No more buying apps in advance if your current device cannot handle it. A massive middle finger to consumers I didn't even realise had happened till you pointed it out.
Have an iPhone but want to buy an app for your future iPad ? No app for you! Stuck on 32bit device but want to buy new apps for future ? Get lost!

For me the biggest 'middle finger' is that I will no longer be able to dig inside *.ipa packages and hunt for samples since I can not longer download the app using iTunes...

And what bugs me the most is that I can currently NOT backup my iPad Air 2 using iTunes 12.7 nor to 'iCloud'(Both methods fail). So installing IOS11 OTA will be 'living on the edge' but thankfully I've already copied over all the stuff I've created using my apps... (And after iOS11 install I'll try to do a backup again).

I think you should still be able to put *.ipa files from your Macbook to your iPad bij Xcode. May not be what Apple intends but will should be possible I think.

The problem isn't moving from MacBook=>iPad. The problem is how to download the .Ipa on the MacBook/PC ? They ripped out the appstore completely in 12.7.
Sure. You can stay on 12.6 since it still let's you download ipa's. But eventually they will stop it from accessing the appstore.

That's something I'm not sure of. You want *.ipa files downloaded from the iOS version of iTunes exported to your Mac or PC, correct?

I agree iTunes is a pile of shite and it's even more a pile of shite now that they have phased out the App Store on iTunes because it was very handy backing up apps (that I have spent good money buying) on my MacBook Pro.